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427The Munich Antiquarium drawing of the entire building [cf. the reconstruction in Fig. 8.14], which would have been far more impressive and more easily readable to the patron than the extremely abbreviated sketch he did provide. Even had he not had the time himself, he could easily have asked one of his sons or one of the draughtsmen he habitually employed to do this.64 There are two quite practical reasons which may have caused this lack of motivation. In the first place, Strada had already spent months and months of his time on his commissions for Duke Albrecht, and the Emperor, who never stopped paying him his salary, may have expressed his dissatisfaction with 64 Moreover he might have presented his plans in a three-dimensional model: the commis- sion was sufficiently important for such a procedure, which was not uncommon, and fa- miliar to both Strada himself and his patrons, as is indicated in his letter to Archduke Ferdinand [DOC.1556-12-22; cf. above, Ch. 2,.5.3]. Elias Holl’s model for Augsburg town hall is perhaps the most impressive example preserved. Figure 8.45 Jacopo Strada, proposal for the arrangement of the statues in his design for the interior elevation of the Antiquarium (detail of Fig. 8.20).